Reality Check: 9 Things That Apple "Missed" Big Time
#8 Apple Thought its Own Maps App Would be Better than Google Maps
Google Maps was the default app in every iPhone since the very first model in 2007. But for the release of the iPhone 5 and iOS 6, Apple decided to ditch Google and create its own maps app but got it big time wrong and eventually leading to the ouster of Scott Forstall, the iOS chief at the time.
Apple has greatly improved its native maps app since then, but it is yet to catch up to Google Maps. After a few more acquisitions in 2013, we might get a glimpse of a much-improved maps app in next year's iOS 9 launch.
#9 Apple Once said 9.7-Inch was "The Minimum Size Required" for iPad
"This size isn’t sufficient to create great tablet apps in our opinion," Jobs said during a 2012 Apple earnings call, referring to competitors debuting 7-inch tablets. But most of the experts thought that the company as well as its inventor had gone wrong on this.
Two years later, Apple announced the 7.9-inch iPad Mini.
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